Read full poem →The sharp and subtle change of metre here and at the end of the poem has
an audacity of beauty and a justice of impulse proper only to the leaders
Dictionary Entry
To measure with a metering device.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. metregauge metrelong metrehigh metreper metremetre squaremetre onemetre cubic
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Poetry examples for “metre”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the spirit and nerves of poetry to tragedy only, and though they aid not
wholly deprive the comedy of metre, tney left it not the shadow of poetic
diction and sentiment;
Read full poem →Take one of the rhimes from these, and write them in two lines, they arc
exactly the same with the French tragic and epic metre.
Read full poem →“ but of much more skill and magnificence in his
** metre, and therefore wrote for the most part to the
* f stage in. tragedy, and sometimes in comedy or in-
Read full poem →that can compare with them for maturity of purpose, and a nice
understanding of the effects of language and metre. Such pieces
are only valuable when they display what we can only express by
Read full poem →This summarizes what follows, often with particular emphasis on
its allegorical meaning. The metre of the argument is that of
the _Book of Common Prayer_.
Read full poem →and is invariably accompanied by the 'p' or 'm' denoting the 'prose' or
'metre.'
Read full poem →written in alternate chapters. Thus the volume begins with the Latin text
of Metre 1, at the close of which there follows immediately, on the same
page, Chaucer's translation of Metre 1. Next comes Prose 1 in Latin,
Read full poem →A = octosyllabic metre; B = ballad metre, in Sir Thopas; C = 4-line stanza,
in the Proverbes; P = Prose.
Read full poem →obvious that they can easily be corrected. Thus, in Book I, l. 27, he
writes _dorst_ for _dorste_, though it ruins the grammar and the metre; in
l. 31, he actually has _hym_ for _hem_, to the destruction of the sense; in